CAPCOM® COMIC-CON 2006 TOURNAMENT WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Capcom® rallied the gaming community at Comic-Con International (July

20-23) with three major gaming tournaments where fierce competitors from

around the country put their skills to the test in Street Fighter® II'

Hyper Fighting, Street Fighter® Alpha 3 and Mega Man Battle Network®

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The two Street Fighter tournaments featured competition based on

standard double elimination brackets. Michael Watson of Monterey Park,

California reigned supreme in Saturday's competition featuring Street

Fighter II' Hyper Fighting on Xbox Live® Arcade for the Xbox 360™

video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and took home the

grand prize Xbox 360 console (courtesy of Microsoft). With an arsenal

of lightning fast moves, Jason Cole of Moorpark, California beat out the

competition on Sunday in Street Fighter Alpha 3 (from Street Fighter®

Alpha Anthology for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system)

to win the grand prize $250 Best Buy gift certificate. Additional top

competitors received prize packs with an assortment of Street Fighter

themed merchandise such as games, apparel and action figures.

With each competitor starting with three Mega Man® tokens, contestants

for Sunday's tournament featuring Mega Man Battle Network 6 for the Game

Boy® Advance video game system competed in two 30 minute rounds. By

winning the most tokens from their opponents at the end of the rounds,

two net battling brothers, Gavin and Keaton Hendershot of Klein, Texas,

emerged victorious with each winning a Nintendo DS™ Lites (courtesy

of Nintendo of America). Participating contestants received an

assortment of Mega Man themed merchandise including games, action

figures and more.